Andrew Tyndall Quotes (22 Quotes)

Shapiro ran a holding operation and was never able to put his mark on NBC News, ... NBC News hasn't fallen apart under him, but it hasn't been forward-looking or innovative.

It's about time the morning shows got caught for making journalistic misjudgments.

She knows how to do live television. She would be the one doing the nine-hour stints in the anchor chair, and doing morning television prepares you for that.

CBS News has already righted itself...It turns out they had all the talent they needed in house.

A few hotheads went overboard on this, but not the media as a whole.

She might alienate as many viewers as she attracts. It's an awful lot of money you're spending on her, so just to break even you've got to increase your audience by a significant amount.

She hasn't done hard news for years, but I'm absolutely confident she knows how. The question is Does she want to do it I don't think she does.

People are realizing that traditional mainstream media has had its opinion, tone and attitude eradicated excessively. It's taken this long for the networks to learn from Fox's success.

This is someone who cares about what the future of his organization will look like and who will represent it. He can't go back on this plan.

It's not too much. He's not a household name... but it's a really vivid way to dramatize the truth of an underlying story - the story of how dangerous Iraq is, and that's an important story to be told.

For the time being, they can't do anything other than to act as if he was on sick leave.

They have always been very careful to groom replacements in-house, teach them the house style and basically have them fit into the ongoing mechanism that exists already.

Why would (CBS) spend all that money hiring her away if they weren't hiring her because she's a superstar.

There's no reason why CBS News can't be an online brand, a Tiffany brand there. But you don't do it by saying the future lies in television.

He is to ABC what Bob Schieffer is to CBS, someone who has been in the shadow of the main anchor for years, and fully qualified to step in.

There was a time with broadcast television's economic model when it made a lot of sense to spend a lot of money on celebrity journalists. But now, we're in an era of media fragmentation, which is only going to get more extreme.

This is a celebrity story.

Being the lead face of a network news division is still the Holy Grail of broadcast journalism.

If that's the way you're going to be growing your audience in the future, by innovating in terms of what medium you're going to be using, I don't see that hiring a celebrity broadcaster is going to help you with that strategy.

The only reason these sorts of stories get the amount of coverage that they do in the first place is that everyone is rooting for a happy ending. People let their optimism for a good headline get in the way of the ... facts.

I don't think she's got many great skills as an interviewer, but she is really good, coming from ESPN, at thinking on her feet and reacting to images. She brings that sporting background of joking and being part of a gang, and that's exactly the atmosphere they're trying to create.

I can't see how that would be an improvement. In her heart of hearts, I think she wants to be a serious journalist. And, there's no room for serious journalism in the 'Oprah' hour.